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October 28, 2015

Ken Owen, executive director of media relations at DePauw and a 1982 graduate of the University, will moderate a discussion between James Carville and Karl Rove at the Indiana Chamber of Commerce's 26th Annual Awards Dinner. The event will take place Wednesday, November 4, at the Indiana Convention Center in downtown Indianapolis and 1,500 people are expected to attend.

A Democratic strategist, James Carville first gained national attention for his work as the lead strategist of the successful 1992 presidential campaign of Bill Clinton.

Karl Rove, a Republican political consultant, was senior adviser to President George W. Bush and served as deputy chief of staff. He came to DePauw in September 2009 to debate former Virginia Governor Howard Dean as part of the Ubben Lecture Series (read more here).

"During these talks, I like to give people two things to laugh at and two things to think about," Carville tells the Chamber. "I look forward to it and I think it will be a great event, and there are really nice people in Indiana. It’s hard to find nicer people anywhere in the world."

Rove joked, "Warn your attendees that I don’t have as much hair as I used to," before saying about Carville: "I think he’s funny, smart as hell and has an intuitive sense of how people think. …I think the (Annual Awards Dinner) will be fabulous."